summer holidays
time to binge-read in the shade
let time fade away
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu, I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
the purest moment
a wave of strawberry juice
eyes closed to focus
Written for the June Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, strawberry.
strawberry flowers
morph slowly into a fruit
gone in a swallow
Written for the June Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, strawberry.
my last house are you?
the horizon, river, hills…
seems to me good that
From words on page 29 (ish) of Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books, 2016/2011).